Clairault Streicker Margaret River Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 95
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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There is not a moment of hesitation if you are trying to identify where this wine is from. It’s Margs through and through with lifted red tulip, cassia and freshly picked blackberries. Alongside run crumbling red clay soils, granite and pencil wood. There is a sinew of fine tannins that provides a lovely chew with elongated lines of acidity that thrill. Fruit is youthful but well versed with oak and spice and is drinking like a charm right now, another 5-8 years in the cellar would see it transform once again into a new silhouette. For now it’s hard to find a single fault and why would you be looking, instead drink this with a slow cooked beef or pork stew and buttery mash. This exceptional drinking is absurd for the price.
Shanteh cut her teeth at Sydney’s Award-Winning Quay restaurant where she worked for over a decade and was Head Sommelier from 2018 till 2022. She has been nominated for the Good Food Guide Sommelier of the Year award on three occasions and claims that her experience as a Len Evans scholar as one of the highlights of her career. Shanteh hosts her own weekly podcast ‘Over A Glass’ with the Deep in the Weeds Network and spends her time writing for various publications and judging at numerous wine shows across the country.
